SteveLyric2

Rory's back!!

The target - as this season - is for all league fixtures to be completed by 31st August, with September for play-offs and remaining BSN and KO Cup fixtures. That would have been achieved this year but for rain-offs, eg Poole completed their league programme and then had to wait for others to sort their remaining fixtures out. The big drawback to that is the same few successful clubs all meet each other in successive weeks in Sept/Oct. So imo the BSN and/or KO Cup fixtures should all be completed by June/July. However priority was given to league fixtures being completed first......

On the Pirates website today Danny Ford states that they have only given 'provisional' acceptance to the Prem KO Cup, depending on having a strong enough, Prem strength line-up.

Why? So any 2-year sponsorship deal would have no relevance then?

I actually suggested the North/ South BSN competition a few weeks back, notwithstanding that some clubs will lose money with more fixtures.

Oh great! Let's p!$$ off the best thing to happen to British Speedway recently - British Speedway Network, by dropping their competition!!!!??

It's just Poole as the Championship winners who are invited. The winners of Poole v Sheffield are against Brum or Leicester in the next round, so unless Zach is signed by Brum again (doubtful!) then shouldn't be an issue. But let's not get ahead of ourselves....its an extra home fixture.

So the 7 Prem clubs invite the 2024 Championship winners into the ko cup 1st round rather than have 3 meetings and a bye! What's not to like.......?

Poole not going back up. Danny Ford quoted in the local press last weekend.

Lawson is a Poole rider. Simply get Cook and Brennan back as the nucleus against Sheffield.

Good to see Bates and Ford working well together. (Are they both still on the Executive Board?)😉

Anything to shore up the Prem Cup!!😂

Should be good if Ben and Tom can be included against Sheffield.

All Poole fixtures are 'juicy'. It'll be good if Poole can use the majority of their 2024 Championship winning team.

Poole helping out the Prem Cup!!!

Drawn against Sheffield in Prem ko cup first round and against Plymouth in Championship ko cup (surprise,surprise)!!

To be fair he has beaten several here and there.

Everything fine in Wayne's World -'We're not worthy, We're not worthy!'🤪😇🤣

Most riders are shocked when they arrive at Plymouth!!🤣🤣 (......awaits Lewy reply....!)😜

And just as important - sponsors!!

They might not want to go Premiership??!!

Have you heard of making your own sandwiches and taking a flask or similar?

More a case of maintaining 7 clubs in the Prem I guess. Surely his brief is to make the Prem look more 'professional' for TV?!

They had to run Premiership because the greyhound stadium leaseholders would only let speedway run on Mondays. Morris/BSPL gave them some sort of incentive to run in Prem rather than not at all as BSPL wouldn't let them run Championship on Mondays.

Don't know why this is on the Poole '25 thread. Poole riders always do the 'celebratory' lap with wheelies, donuts, burnouts, waving to the fans etc etc.😇